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Originally Posted by infernalis
So I have done it BOTH ways, and in my honest opinion, the larger cage makes more sense
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Now that all depends Wayne. I agree with you to a point. However, when you are a breeder and you are hatching a couple of dozen varanids, proper raise up cages are both easy and beneficial to set up. It would make no sense at all to let a clutch of ackies or gillens go in a 4x2x2 cage. It makes much more sense to house them in much smaller raise up cages in very small groups as you can keep a close eye on everything from eating to crapping.
I think the same rules can apply even if you are not breeding. If you aquire a few baby Varanus whatevers, you can easily use smaller raise up cages. Or you can do what you have done and house juvies in a properly set up adult cage. Personally, I like to make sure everyone is doing what they are supposed to be doing and acting how they should be acting before I drop them in a huge cage. It is piece of mind for me and it is not detrimental to the growing varanids.
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Originally Posted by Little Wise Owl
While there are some pros to starting small, I personally think it's a waste of money because you'd need to build or find a custom enclosure that'll meet their humidity/digging needs.
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While I am in no way suggesting that one should keep their monitors in a glass aquarium for any extended length of time, with the proper modifications, they can make very suitable TEMPORARY raise up cages and can support all the heat, humidity and digging needs of a juvinile varanid. So there really is no need to find or build a custome cage to use as a raise up cage.
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